Per Egil Hegge (born 6 March 1940) is a Norwegian journalist.
Hegge was born in
Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
as a son of two teachers from
Skatval
Skatval is a village in the municipality of Stjørdal in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the Skatval peninsula about northwest of the town of Stjørdalshalsen. The inhabitants are called as ''Skatvalsbygg''. Skatval Church is lo ...
. The family moved to
Inderøy
Inderøy is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen. Other villages include Framverran, Gangstadhaugen, Hylla, Kjerknesvågen, Kjer ...
in 1941.
He served his
military service
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at the elite Russian language program of the
Norwegian Armed Forces
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. He started his career in the
Norwegian News Agency
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, and was hired in ''
Aftenposten
( in the masthead; ; Norwegian for "The Evening Post") is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 million ...
'' in 1962 and remained there for the rest of his career. He was the newspaper's
London
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correspondent from 1963 to 1965, and then worked in Norway (winning the
Narvesen Prize
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List of winne ...
in 1968) before becoming
Moscow
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correspondent from 1969 to 1971. He was then expelled from the country, one of the reasons for this being that he was the first journalist to interview
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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after he won the
Nobel Prize in Literature
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in 1970. After another six years in Norway from 1971 to 1977 Hegge was the
Washington DC
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correspondent from 1977 to 1981. He was then subeditor before editing ''Aftenposten''
's magazine ''
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'' from 1984 to 1988. From 1992 to 1998 he was the cultural editor. He retired in 2005,
but continued to have a column about the correct use of language. When it comes to perceptions of the
Norwegian language
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quality development, Hegge has been called a "housegod of the dissatisfied" by literary critic
Aage Borchgrevink
Aage Storm Borchgrevink (born 1969) is a Norwegian human rights activist, writer and literary critic. He works at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, where he focuses on the human rights situation in Russia, Chechnya and Georgia.
Career
He was bo ...
.
Hegge chaired the Norwegian branch of
PEN-International from 1985 to 1988. He has written several books, formerly about world affairs,
[ lately many books about the correct use of language and other popular releases. He has also biographed ]Otto Sverdrup
Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup (31 October 1854, in Bindal, Helgeland – 26 November 1930) was a Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer.
Early and personal life
He was born in Bindal as a son of farmer Ulrik Frederik Suhm Sverdrup (1833–1914) ...
(in 1996), Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (; 10 October 186113 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian. He led the team t ...
(in 2002) and Harald V of Norway
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(in 2006). His Nansen biography was translated to Armenian
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in 2007.List of publications
in BIBSYS Hegge has also been a popular lecturer.
In 2003 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav
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(Knight 1st Class).[
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References
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1940 births
Living people
People from Trondheim
People from Inderøy
Norwegian journalists
Norwegian newspaper reporters and correspondents
Norwegian columnists
Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Norwegian expatriates in the Soviet Union
Norwegian expatriates in the United States
Norwegian magazine editors
Norwegian biographers
Norwegian male writers
Male biographers